"Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig" > wrote in message
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On Aug 21, 9:49 pm, Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig >
wrote:
> On Aug 21, 6:13 pm, Chemiker > wrote:
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> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:49:27 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
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> > > wrote:
> > >On Aug 21, 1:49 pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> > >>http://www.foodclassics.com/re3487/recipes.php
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> > >> Google "embrochette recipes." There are plenty more. Here's to
> > >> following
> > >> Goomba's petty, anal lead.
> > >======================
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> > >I don't care how many damn hits you got. It's not a word.
> > >Embrouillier IS a word.
> > >A verb: to tangle up; to embroil; to mix up; to confuse
> > >Larousse's French/English - English/ French Dictionary
>
> > Um, Lynn....
>
> > In this part of the country, Cajun, "embrochette" is a
> > word. It is a dialectical variant of "en brochette",
> > of which term I think you are already acquainted.
>
> > Cajun french is different from Continental French,
> > so much so, that in LA you can buy dictionaries
> > which detail the etymology of Cajun words. I'm
> > not talking touristy paperbacks, here. I'm talking
> > Hardbound books 2-3 inches thick....scholarly
> > works.
>
> > One who visited here from the Continent would be
> > totally amazed at, what they would call, the
> > *******ization of the French language. Yet the
> > (shall I call it a) dialect is intelligible to
> > people all through Louisiana and East texas.
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> Mais oui! Like French-Canadian. See also Creole and the many Pidgin
> dialects. As many here would say, "Mo hottah, mo bettah!" - used to
> be the name of a catalog company that sold hot sauces from everywhere.
>
> Pardonnez moi,
> Lynn en Fargo

>I forgot: "Shrimp Scampi" bet you could get 16,000 hits on that and
>it's wrong too!

There you go!